Attachment Quote by Mahavatar Babaji

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Maybe the yogi is a parent who's a little more patient with their child, or a more compassionate coworker, or an understanding boss. Perhaps,…

— David F. Swensen

If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all…

— Swami Vivekananda

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos…

— Prem Prakash

One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“if a yogi is so well blessed with karma to be one who can tread the pleasant path, one who can gain wisdom without…

— Jack Kornfield

I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.

— Baratunde Thurston

“The yogi moving toward Divinity is deemed more highly evolved than ascetics who practice severe penance, higher than the learned ones who know the…

— The Bhagavad Gita

“The heart of a yogi should always bear good-will and thoughts that benefit others.”

— Amit Ray

“He who does the task Dictated by duty, Caring nothing For the fruit of the action, He is a yogi. (Bhagavad-Gita, VI:I) Hence”

— Huston Smith